Adriann Ranta, John Zurhellen

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July 10, 2016

Adriann Bonnie Ranta and John Patrick Zurhellen were married July 9 at Onteora Mountain House in Boiceville, N.Y. Charlotte Howorth, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.

The bride, 31, is a literary agent at Foundry Literary & Media, a literary agency in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Arizona.

She is the daughter of Catherine J. Sigmon of Phoenix and David L. Ranta of Sacramento. The bride’s father is the office manager at Sac-Val, a janitorial supply company in Sacramento. Her mother owns Compass Rose Framing, a picture-framing shop in Phoenix. She retired as a product manager and a senior buyer at PetSmart in Phoenix.

The groom, 40, works in Manhattan as a creative producer at Nickelodeon, where he creates video games featuring SpongeBob SquarePants and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He graduated from N.Y.U.

He is a son of Kathleen Zurhellen and J. Owen Zurhellen III of Yonkers, N.Y. The groom’s mother retired as a computer science teacher at St. Gabriel School, an elementary school in the Bronx. His father retired as a lawyer in Manhattan.